SME’s Model 6 Classic May Be the Best Turntable Under $10,0000

Throughout the decades, the Scale Model Equipment Company (SME) has quietly manufactured the finest turntable tonearms in the business, beginning with the 3009 in 1959. The Model V, launched in 1986, changed the tonearm landscape with its materials and construction. The successors of both, appearing similar but vastly improved, are still in production today.

In more recent times, SME has manufactured some formidable turntables, with tonearms offered not as an accessory, but…